"The brand new(ish) Xbox 360 E is designed to resemble the much-anticipated Xbox One," writes Miroslav Djuric, chief information architect at iFixit, in a press release. "As the Xbox 360 line is nearing its end, we figured that this new release probably wouldn't presage any dramatic hardware transformations. But we were curious if the Xbox's new looks would affect its repairability. So, we handed the device over to our teardown monkeys for disassembly."

Here's an excerpt from those iFixit teardown monkeys of Microsoft's Xbox 360 E, which iFixit calls a "mid 2013 revision to the Xbox 360" game consoles and possible facsimile to "much-anticipated Xbox One."

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"Over all, the Xbox 360 E fared very well under our industrious spudgers, earning an 8 out of 10 on our repairability scale," writes Miroslav Djuric.

"Despite a new look, the Xbox 360 E's tech specs are nearly identical to those of the Xbox 360 S:

Easy assemble and disassemble is always better. To maximize profit, management counts every screw. The fewer; the better.
I wonder what's the motivation to launch XBox 360 E in this late time since the launch of XBox One is right around the corner. Would keeping Ouya to gain momentum be one of the reasons?